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**Parenthesis** If you are, as I am, both a writer and an avid reader, there are two habits you're likely to form. The first is that you'll start looking at all the people in your life as being characters in a story, and will find in them...
Sharp Shooter-Chapter 6-Second Chance
I woke up what felt like hours later,but I have no idea how long it was. My head was pounding and my eyes were still glazed over a bit, which left everything slightly foggy, but I could tell that I was laying flat on my back and was covered by what...
Sharp Shooter-Chapter 4-The Sun
Time passed. The sun rose above the Sahara sand, beginning to bake the already scorching landscape. The blood in my teeth and gums dried out, becoming glue that held my jaws so tightly that I couldn't open them. The same thing happened with the rest of...
Sharp Shooter-Chapter 5-Vision
I came to in what looked like the interior of an aircraft. All that I could see was a brown blur above me, on account of the heavy glaze on my eyes, but I could hear what sounded like jet engines out side and the sounds of talons clanking on a metal...
Black Shuck
It was the screams that brought them running. It had been a normal night. It was supposed to _keep_ being a normal night. "I don't get it," Ronan, the baker; a large man with dark hair and beard and skin permanently ruddy from the heat of his...
Part 3
Austin turned his back on his friend's jeep. Now wasn't the time for heartfelt goodbyes or last minute good-lucks. He stepped over the smashed gate of the impound lot and walked over to his car a few rows back. A DMC-12 responded with the button on his...
Part 4
The odd pair left the dimly lit bar behind them. They walked in silence for a few moments, wondering how best to proceed. "So, Mr. Silver," the taller began, "what do you think of violence?" It took a moment for a reply, "I try to minimize the...
Song of the Soul: Getting Acquainted (Ch 1)
The cool night air brushed against the soft glow of the crystals, whisking by gurgling streams and rushing around roaring waterfalls. Tall flowers, the size of sunflowers, lit the small pocket of space near them with their bioluminescence. They emitted...